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To: LindyBill who wrote (24472)	1/15/2004 11:02:29 AM
From: E	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793721

Sure has filled in nicely. It would have had to be filled in nicely by a doctor, because nature didn't do it. I met someone who had had a transplant when they were first being done, and they were stuck in there in big clumps. I was so sorry for him. I know they do it now a hair, or maybe a couple of them, at a time, so they can now fill in the bare scalp between the clumps. I understand politicians doing it because there may be a voters' bias in favor of a full head of hair. Lots exceedingly odd things affect voters. Here's a piece quoting an article in the Nation, URL is included, about Bush's crotch, and speculating that Dean's macho might play a part in the election. I have not read this article. I'm pasting the quote from an email I got this morning from someone who doesn't like Dean much, but points out that this Nation article gives a er, crotch-related 'reason' that he might have a chance to beat Bush. (This whole business of the increasing importance of visual 'image' over substance might be added to Laz's list of TV-social-costs.) "If Kucinich is a vegan, Dean acts like a man who likes his steak blood-rare and his politics cutthroat. These traits are part of his campaign to achieve symbolically what he can't quite carry off ideologically, by competing with Bush for the most potent compliment in American politics today: You the man! "A specter is haunting the White House. It is the specter of the young Clint Eastwood. Check him out in those Reagan-era bad-cop films and you'll see the origin of Bush's flinty glare. This President owes his mandate, such as it is, to his projection of macho. There's a reason why he's the first President in history to inspire an action-hero doll. (Decked out in a flight suit, he's ready to enchant 8-year-olds of all ages.) From Bush's taunting response to insurgents in Iraq--"Bring 'em on"--to the fighter-pilot drag he donned for that famous aircraft-carrier landing, he rarely misses a chance to wave his whopper, and not just figuratively. That flight suit had a distinctly bulbous crotch. It's no reach to think that Bush's handlers, so concerned about lighting and posing him, would pad his panache. That sort of gesture goes straight to the subconscious, an achievement any hidden persuader can be proud of. "Still, something about the President's swagger lends itself to parody. It looks as forced and fragile as it is……." The person sent this to me because she had, when Bush appeared in the flight suit, emailed me that she was sure he'd stuffed his crotch, it looked so unnaturally, shall we say, major. This is all social/cultural politics, we understand, of course, and thus not OT.